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Unleash the Power of Case Management with Entities
Entities allow users to share information between forms, enabling the collection of longitudinal data, management of cases over time, and support for other complex workflows in Ona. They can represent physical things, such as towns or plants, and abstract things, like household visits or facility follow-ups.
Form Styling: Ona Data Webinar Series
In our first webinar of 2023, Samson Amwata, Client Success Specialist, led a session on Form Styling. He provided insight into best practices of form styling to improve the presentation and appearance of forms.
XLSForm Validation: Ona Data Webinar Series
In our last webinar of the year 2022, Megan Schroeder, Client Success Lead & M&E Specialist, led a session on XLSForm Validation. She provided insight into various techniques for validating responses to questions on forms and gave tips on how to enforce data accuracy.
Select Location Widget: Ona Data Webinar Series
In our last blog post, we introduced the new Select Location widget for Ona Data, and recently presented the new feature in the third Ona Data webinar. Megan Schroeder, from the Support & M&E team, covered ways of uploading locations, using the widget on ODK Collect, and viewing locations on Ona Data’s map.
Introducing the Select Location widget for Ona Data
We are thrilled to announce the new Select Location widget, which will help you plan and target in map-based data campaigns and improve your overall data quality.
Introducing Enhanced Form Dashboards in Ona Data
We are excited to introduce enhanced form dashboards to Ona Data. Customer feedback is core to our product development and customers have expressed the need for increased speed and usability when viewing data in Ona Data’s submissions table.
Preloading Data in XLSForms: Ona Data Webinar Series
We launched the Ona Data webinar series to help people take their XLSForm authoring skills to the next level. Bilhah Kimondiu, Project Manager, presented the second installment, ‘Preloading Data in XLSForms’. She covered when and how to use preloaded data, outlined the various preloading options, and shared a few common XLSForm preloading use cases.
Announcing the launch of Ona Data’s new webinar series
We were thrilled to launch the Ona Data webinar series with an inaugural session on ‘Tips & Tricks in XLSForm Authoring’, which was attended by 112 people eager to take their authoring skills to the next level.
Data Verification in Ona using Submission Review
Data review is a key step in the data collection process that ensures completeness, consistency, accuracy, and appropriateness of data, and generally builds confidence in data used for decision making. We are introducing a submission review feature to paid Ona accounts so teams can collaboratively review submissions and assign pending, accepted or rejected statuses. Submission
How to Build a Slack Bot for Reporting Standups
by Pharis After joining Ona as a Software Engineering Intern, I was tasked to compile and post standups for all the members of the project we were working on. At first it was a great experience, and even better we could alternate shifts with another intern. However, as time went by the task was too